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, D. P. HEAD. STEP LADDER ATTACHMENT TOE WAGON SEATS. No. 418,023.Patented Deo. 24, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

DALLAS FRANKLIN llEAD, OF MOUNT LEBANON, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALFTO NATHANIEL TV. WARREN, OF SAME PLACE.

STEP-LADDER ATTACHMENT FOR WAGON-SEATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 418,023, dated December24, 1889.

Application led June l1, 1889. Serial No. 313,871. (No modell) i To allwhom, it may concern.'

Be it known that I, DALLAS FRANKLIN HEAD, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Mount Lebanon, in the parish of Bienville and Stateof Louisiana, have invented a new and useful Step-Ladder Attachment toVagon-Seats, of which the followin gis a specification.

This invention has relation to improvements in wagon-seats, and hasspecial reference to an attachment for the same, and is designed as animprovement over my patent, No. 398,252, granted February 19, 1889.

Among the objects in view are to provide a wagon-seat with a removablestep adapted for connection with the sides or end-board of a wagon,whereby passengers may mount or dismount from the wagon by the step,which step may be afterward inserted under the seat; to reduce the costof the step and adapt the same for application to any ordinary seatwithout the necessity of materially altering the seat or destroying thesame, and withal to provide a strong and serviceable step that may beeasily manipulated, placed in, and withdrawn from position.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of the underportion of a seat provided with a step attachment constructed inaccordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective of a wagon-body,the step being mounted at the side thereof in operative p0- sition. Fig.3 is a detail in perspective of the step detached.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of thedrawings.

1 represents an ordinary wagon-body, upon j the sides 2 of which issupported an ordinary seat 3. The seat 3 consists of the seat-board 4,the side and rear rails 5, and the supporting-springs 6, which springs,as usual, rest upon the upper edges of the sides 2 of the body. Upon theunder surface of the seatboard and adjacent to the springs or near eachend of said board are provided transverse bars 7, and upon the same aresecured overlapping cleats 8, thus forming opposite inwardly-openinggrooves or ways 9, at the front ends of which are provided stopblocks10.

11 represents the step attachment, and the same consists of a back board12 and a series of two or more steps 13, projecting from the face of theboard and arranged at a suitable distance apart, and preferably beingformed larger as they approach the lower end of the board. Suitablescrews or other fastening devices are inserted through the rear end ofthe board into the steps; or said steps may be rabbeted and set ingrooves in the board or otherwise secured thereto, as desired. Betweeneach of the steps and projecting from the edges of the board 12 atopposite points are pins, pegs, or staples 14, and from each of theopposite edges of the steps near their outer ends are inserted staplesor eyes 15, the lower step having a central eye 16 upon its undersurface. From the upper of the series of pegs 14 there extends a heavywire brace 17, the same being carried forward through the eye 15 at thatside of the step 13 and downward to the neXt peg or pin 14, and, if morethan two steps be used, to the next staple or eye 15. In this instance,however, where only two steps are employed, after the wire leaves thesecond pin 14, the same is carried under the lower step of the seriesand through the staple or eye 16, arranged about the center of saidstep; from thence over to the opposite edge of the step and around thepin or peg 14 intermediate the two steps; from thence up and outward tothe eye 15 of the upper step 13, and from thence rearwardly to theopposite peg 14, at which place said wire preferably terminates. By thisarrangement l secure an exceedingly rigid and practically non-yieldingstep attachment.

The means employed for securing the step to the side of the wagon arethe same as in my previous patent-namely, a U-shaped double bail 18, theterminals of which are bent and engage with eyes 19, projecting from theface of the rear board 12 near its upper end, said bail being adapted totake over the edge of the side-board 2 of the wagon.

To insert the attachment under a seat, the ends of the board 12 areentered within the grooves 9 at the rear end of the seat until thestop-blocks 10 arrest the movement of the attachment. An ordinaryturn-button 19, se-

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cured to the rear edge of the seat-board, may be provided to prevent theaccidental displacement of the attachment, or I may provide any otherWell-known means.

The baillS is of such proportion with relation to the cleat 8 as to beadapted to take over the saine, as shown, When the attachment isarranged under the seat, and thereby obviate any rattling or unpleasantnoises.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim i s- I l. Thecombination, With a wagon-seat provided With opposite Ways upon itsunder surface, of a step attachment adapted for insertion Within theWays and withdrawal therefrom, substantially as specilied.

2. The combination, with a wagon-seat provided with Ways upon its undersurface having a stop, of a step attachment adapted for insertion withinthe Ways and against the stop, and a fastening device secured to therear edge of the/seat and adapted to secure the attachment within theWays, substantially as specified.

3. The combination, with a wagon-seat provided with opposite Ways formedof oppositely-arranged cleats, of a step attachment having a supportinglatch or bail adapted to take over the cleat and secure the attachmentagainst rattling, substantially as specified.

4. The combination, with a Wagon-seat provided with opposite cleatsforming grooves or Ways, of the herein-described step attachment,consisting of a rear board of a length agreeing with the distancebetween the Ways and provided with a series of steps, a zigzagarrangedbracin g-Wi re connecting alternately the sides of the board and thestep, and a supporting Ushaped bail adapted to take over the cleatforming the groove, substantially as specified.

5. The herein-described attachment for Wagons, consisting of the rearboard 12, having the series of steps 13, pins 14, projecting from thesides of the board 12, and eyes 15, projecting from the side of thesteps, and an eye 1G from the under surface of the bottom step, and thebrace-wire 17, extending from the first series of pegs 14 to the Iirstseries of eyes 15, thence to the next peg, and so on throughout theseries, and finally under the step last in the series through the eyethereon, and throughout the series of pegs and staples at the oppositeside of the board, and having the opposite eyes 19 and U-shaped bail 18,substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in presence of two Witnesses.

DALLAS FRANKLIN HEAD.

NTitiiesses:

H. A. MCFARLAND, G. W.RABORN.

